Subj : Nightmare Alley (2021)
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Jul 06 2022 10:49 pm

Hi All...


Saw the film.  Enjoyed it.  Decided to check out the book to help "fill in the gaps".

"Upon its publication, in September 1946, Nightmare Alley was
an acclaimed and successful novel, and a damned and banned one.

"For thirty years after the first edition of 1946, every edition remained corrupt and censored. To use but one example, instead of ?society dames with the clap, bankers that take it up the ass,? readers encountered ?society dames with a dose, bankers that have fishy eyes.?

"Within little more than a decade, it was all but forgotten. Sixteen autumns later, in September 1962, Gresham?s body was found, self-killed, in a hotel room off Times Square. He has just turned fifty-three a few weeks before. In his possession were business cards that read:

[ see.. https://susepaste.org/24850127 ]

"And so the alley, and the running, and the light beyond reach
came to an end - for the man who wrote of that alley, if not for us who read of it.

"It is interesting, too, that while still undergoing psychotherapy, Gresham crafted in Nightmare Alley, in the somewhat heavy-handedly named character of Dr. Lilith Ritter, the most viciously evil psychologist in the history of literature."

Ciao!
/|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)

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